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... HUBBLE UNCOVERS DUST DISK AROUND A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE . Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the jets in NGC 7052 are not perpendicular to the disk, it may indicate that the black hole and the dust disk in NGC 7052 do not have a common origin. ... NGC 7052 is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, 191 million light-years from Earth. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms. ... Hubble has the ability to resolve individual stars in other galaxies and measure accurately the light from very faint stars. This makes space telescope invaluable for identifying a rare class of pulsating stars, called Cepheid Variable stars embedded within M100's spiral arms. ... 617) 495-7062 . Fax: (617) 495-7356 . ...

... 2004: . ... An increase in star brightness is followed by a decrease in asphericity and wind velocity to the point where stationary and even accreting fraction of the wind appears in extremely bright objects together with a flowing out fraction. ... Based on an analysis of observations obtained with BTA and on the published data it was found that degree of abnormality of energy distribution in continuum of magnetic chemically peculiar stars increases with an increase of their rotation period. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... We have observed 210 Seyfert galaxies and 81 starburst galaxies with the 275-km Parkes - Tidbinbilla Interferometer (PTI) at 2.3 GHz (Norris et al., ... This result shows a significant difference between the two samples, and shows clearly that, although a few starburst galaxies may contain a buried AGN, the majority do not. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Our Galaxy . ... To locate it, look along the imaginary line between the two end stars on the leading edge of the PloughтАЩs blade (Merak and Dubhe) and Polaris (the North Star), the galaxy M82 (also known as the Cigar Galaxy) along with its companion M81, lies just off this line about a third of the way between the Plough and Polaris. €а€аAs usual, the supernova is far brighter than its home galaxy, appearing as an extra star. ...

... Among their major tools of exploration are the images and data in large surveys taken using the Hubble Space Telescope. ... A Collection of Resources to Get Behind the Headlines . ... This episode of Astronomy Behind the Headlines is indeed ripped from recent headlines, when astronomers used the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope to see deeper into space (and thus farther back in time) than had ever been possible. ... The James Webb Space Telescope page on finding the first stars and galaxies:...

STScI-PRC99-10 . ... Astronomers have used the NASA Hubble Space Telescope to produce an infrared "photo essay" of spiral galaxies. By penetrating the dust clouds swirling around the centers of these galaxies, the telescope’s infrared vision is offering fresh views of star birth. These six images, taken with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, showcase different views of spiral galaxies, from a face-on image of an entire galaxy to a close-up of a core. ... Gallery | ...

... 2.11.1996 . ... Credit Copyright: Anglo-Australian Telescope photograph by David Malin . Copyright: Anglo-Australian Telescope Board Explanation: NGC 253 is a normal spiral galaxy seen here almost sideways. It is the largest member of the Sculptor Group of Galaxies , the nearest group to our own Local Group of Galaxies. ... NGC 253 is considered a "starburst" galaxy because of high star formation rates and dense dust clouds in its nucleus . ... NGC 253: Close Up . ... Spiral Galaxy NGC 253 . ...

... January 22, 1997 . Galaxy Cluster A2199 . ... Explanation : It's bigger than a bread box. ... Close," however, is only relative to other clusters of galaxies , since light takes about 50 million years to reach us from A2199. All of the fuzzy objects in the above picture are galaxies , but these galaxies do not contain most of the matter in the cluster. By studying clusters like A2199, astronomers conclude that some form of dark matter dominates the motion of the bright galaxies. ...

... The British consortium, currently led by Professor Gordon Bromage of the University of Central Lancashire , includes the Universities of Keele , Nottingham and Southampton , the Open University and Armagh Observatory and will be joining the other partners in the SALT project, from South Africa, Poland, Germany, USA and New Zealand. ... SALT Dome . ... The SALT project is managed by a team based at the SALT Headquarters at Sutherland and South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Confirm Dark Galaxy Existence . ... New evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands has been used to rule out all but one of the ideas put forward to explain the existence of VIRGOHI 21, an intergalactic gas cloud 50 million light-years from the Earth. ... Are there more such dark galaxies out there? ... Credit: R. Minchin / Arecibo Observatory / Cardiff University / Isaac Newton Telescope / Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope . ...

Next: Proposed Facility Up: You are CALTECH Previous: You are CALTECH . Your main research interests lie in Lyman-break galaxies. ... Until a few year ago, almost no galaxies had ever been found in the high redshift universe. ... Galaxies that show up as blue in B and R but are very faint in U will be the ones which have the Ly-limit at around 4000?: ie. redshift 3 galaxies. ... These galaxies (when observed with the Hubble Space telescope) appear as tiny blue specks. ... What are these galaxies? ...

... Here some data observed on the 6m telescope with IFP installed in the OLD focal reducer are presented. ... Mkn 3: velocity field . ... NGC 5252: [OIII] image . ... NGC 5252 was observed 23 Feb. 1998 in the [OIII]5007 emission line with CCD TK1024 as detector. ... We observed the ionized gas velocity fields of the spiral galaxies with two purpose. ... Restored velocity field of NGC 157 in the reference frame rotating with the pattern speed overlaid on the Ha image of the galaxy . ... NGC 4100 . ...

This striking view of the Cartwheel Galaxy is a composite of GALEX (blue), Hubble Space Telescope (green), Spitzer Space Telescope (red) and Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple) images. The outer ring, which could encircle our Milky Way Galaxy, appears blue and violet. Pink clumps along the outer ring show X-ray and ultraviolet sources occuring together. ... The Cartwheel's inner ring and nucleus appear yellow-orange because they emit primarily at visible and infrared wavelengths. ...

... The results of the follow-up spectroscopy of 187 emission-line galaxy (ELG) candidates from the Case objective-prism survey with the 6m telescope are described. ... Significant fraction ( 23%) of the observed Case galaxies do not show emission lines in blue. ... Observations and data reduction . IPCS observations and data reduction . CCD observations and data reduction . ... Accuracy of data, comparison with independent measurements . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...